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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winging from Augusta, Ga. to Washington aboard the Columbine one day last spring, President Eisenhower sprang a question on General Elwood Quesada, his special assistant for aviation. What, asked Ike, is the state of U.S. airlines as they prepare to enter the jet age? "Pete" Quesada's answer: Not so good. Though airlines are committed to spend $4 billion for new jet equipment by 1962, they have run into sliding earnings and difficulties in financing their purchases. Ike asked for a special report on the airlines' plight. Last week Quesada sent him a 44-page document prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Jet-Age Problems | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

Ghost Writer. In Augusta, Ga., Merchant Sam Bruce made a quick phone call to a bank, learned that it was quite all right to cash a check written by Blue Monday of Dead Man's Alley, Langley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...Other New England politicians whom he warmly befriended: New Hampshire's Republican Senators Styles Bridges ("one of my very best friends") and Norris Cotton (who owns 10% of Goldfine's Lebondale Mills). Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Payne ("I knew him when he was mayor of Augusta"). Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo. "In picking winners." says Goldfine with a grin. "I've been very fortunate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UP FROM EAST BOSTON: The Man Who Was Friend to Politicians | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

Robert M. Crocker, Maine State House correspondent for the Associated Press at Augusta said he saw Sputnik III at 9:03 to the west of the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sputnik Sweeps Over Northeast In Western Orbit | 5/16/1958 | See Source »

...Augusta on a long golfing weekend, the President got the word on the Times story, checked the facts on the telephone with McElroy. Instantly he directed Press Secretary Jim Hagerty to issue a statement: While McElroy "has not insisted on rigid adherence to words and phraseology, he has confirmed to the President that no changes in the meaning of any feature of the modernization program have been implied by any testimony of his." Ike himself dictated the final sentence: "Both the President and the Secretary are agreed that there can be no compromise on-or retreat from-the essentials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: No Retreat | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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